June Hwajung (born 1991 in Jeonju, South Korea) received his BFA in Korean Arts from the JeonBuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea in 2015 and is currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria in the class of Daniel Richter.

The painterly practice of June Hwajung is deeply influenced by his long engagement with traditional Korean art. His works begin with a layer of thin Korean paper applied across the entire canvas. He then paints more sheets of Korean paper with watercolor, cuts out pieces, and attaches them to the prepared surface. This collage-like process generates a nuanced spatial depth with a strong structural presence. Occasionally, he adds a figurative accent at the end using black ink.

While the works are marked by vivid color and seemingly simple motifs, they often reveal layered meanings beneath their surface. June Hwajung explores intimacy, desire, and bodily instability, focusing on how emotions and relationships unfold within private and transitional spaces. A garden, for instance, becomes a metaphor for migration and fragile belonging, while displaced objects within the domestic interior evoke states of disorientation. By tracing how norms, traditions, and power structures are internalized within intimate environments, June Hwajung’s work reveals the quiet tensions that shape contemporary post-migrant experience.